Ideology of Pakistan in the Light of Statements of QUAID-I-AZAM and ALLAMA IQBAL

1. Ideology of Pakistan in the Light
of Statements of QUAID-I-AZAM
and ALLAMA IQBAL

2. • The sense of nationhood developed among the Muslims before the
establishment of Pakistan.
• The goal of Muslims were to protect their identity and rights
• Muslims tried to protect their constitutional rights too.
• Islam had played central role for the development of two nation
theory.
• A good leadership infuses the qualities of awareness, realization,
mobilization, sense of direction, and defense against the adversaries.
• The Muslims were lucky having such competent leadership.

3. Quaid E Azam
Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a history-making leader who changed the
course of history. He possessed a visionary leadership, commitment to
the cause and political mobilization capacity. He was a Charismatic
Leader in the real sense of the meaning.

4. Role of Quaid e Azam
• He started his political career in 1906 by joining the Indian National
Congress. He was elected to the Legislative Council in 1909 and in 1913 he
also joined the All India Muslim League (AIML)
His early efforts to promote Hindu-Muslim unity were materialized when
THE LUCKNOW PACT (1916) was signed. The Hindus accepted the Muslim
demands:
• Separate Electorate
•The pact ensured the protection of political rights of Muslim
• Muslim league separate status was also being accepted
• Dadbhai naroji
• 1913-1920

5. • In the Nehru Report (1928), the muslim rights which were accepted
previously was ignored.
• Jinnah retaliated forcefully by presenting 14 Points in 1929.
• He defined Muslim identity and mobilized them with reference to
Islam and convinced others that Muslims are different from the
Hindus and the Congress. Islamic principles, concepts and symbols
surfaced in his speeches and statements.
• Jinnah used the term NATION for the Muslims of India in Feb 1935
(Legislative Assembly). He argued that the combination of religion,
culture, race, arts, music and so forth make a minority a SEPARATE
ENTITY. In March 1936 Bombay, he stated that the Muslims could
arrive at a settlement with Hindus as TWO Nations.
• In 1937, he asserted that there is also a third party in India, the
Muslims.

6. In one of his speech , he said
“We are a nation with our own distinctive culture and civilization,
language and literature, names and nomenclature, sense of values and
proportion, legal laws and moral code, custom and calendar, history
and tradition, aptitudes and ambitions; in short, we have our own
distinctive outlook on life and of life. By all cannons of international
law, we are a nation”

7. Role of Allama Iqbal
• Men like Allama Iqbal are born but in centuries.
• He was conscious of significance of Islam in lives of the Muslims. His
first public appearance was in 1899 at the annual session of Anjuman
Himayat-i-Islam in Lahore when he presented the poem
• His poetry was a critique of the existing societal conditions.
• Being educated from Europe, he knew all weak aspects of the
Western culture.

8. IQBAL- Focus on the conditions of the Indian
Muslims
• Islam can rescue the Muslims
• Islam has always saved Muslim
• Islam is a living and dynamic ideology that can meet modern
challenges
• Islam to help them to overcome their internal discord and enable
them to meet external challenges
• With spiritualism based derived from Islam

9. Address to the Muslim League Session, Allahabad,
December 1930
I would like to see the Punjab, NWFP, Sind, Balochistan amalgamated
into a single state as a self government within the British empire or
without. This is the final destiny of the Muslims of India.